Social Media

Social media articles focused on popular sites like Twitter, Google Buzz and YouTube.

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How To Buffer Your Way To Social Media Success

Social media is clearly unavoidable for anyone conducting business on the internet today. The problem most people face, is that there are so many social networks out there, it’s difficult to decide which ones we should invest our time on. We need to make efficient use of our time and find out where we can get the most bang for our buck so to speak. That’s where a service like Buffer is worth it’s weight in gold, because you can connect more than one social network and keep track of who, what, when and where people are engaging with your content.

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Don’t Miss This Special Twitter Event!

When I was speaking in Ohio at a blogging convention, I realized the price of admission to go to one of these things. To be honest, it’s kind of outrageous the prices they charge. While there, I really got to thinking about events that I could create that would be free to bloggers who were just getting started. The kind of event that you could attend in your own living room or office. Naturally that event would have to be online, and that’s just the event I created!

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Facebook Promoted Posts: Time to Change Channels

Facebook Promoted Posts have been getting some not so welcoming reviews. Especially from small business owners without deep pockets to spend in social media.The more favorable option is to focus your efforts on a different platform altogether. No you shouldn’t abandon Facebook entirely, but, if your reach declined drastically, you may need to cut your losses. This is how I see it…

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Social Networking

Diving Into Social Networking

Social networking is the one of the keys to making money online with your blog. These social networking sites are there for you to use and they can help to bring your site’s integrity to the next level. Use social media sites to boost your exposure.Social networking also allows you to connect with current friends or make new one’s while sharing updates, photos and videos on various platforms.

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The evolution of blogging

The Evolution of Blogging

The evolution of blogging has been in a constant state of flux from day one. Since the earliest days of the Web, the natural human inclination to communicate, share and form groups has expressed itself using whatever tools that happen to be available. Beginning with BBS and Usenet and continuing into the 90s with Personal Journals and cult sites like The Best Page in the Universe, the primitive blogging ecosystem was a wild and woolly place.

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Top 5 Ways To Create Conversions with Hangouts On Air

et’s be honest here, most Hangouts On Air produce a 45 to 60 minute video. Most people just are not going to take the time to watch all that. But what I did find was that the ones that do watch an hour long teaching video are the people who buy my products. So it came clear to me fast that if I was going to push replays of a weekly or bi-weekly show that would be viewed mostly by people who were buying info products and joining membership sites, that it would be best to host them on pages that convert into sales of such. You have probably heard the term “landing pages.” Well we like to call them “action pages” around here. Sending your viewers to Google+ and YouTube to watch your Hangouts is a big mistake as you will soon see below. Using the 5 strategies here I was able to convert 37% of my small list into buyers of an info product.

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Drive Blog Traffic With Pinterest

How to Use Pinterest to Drive Traffic to Your Website

Pinterest is one of those social networking sites, which started with a unique concept and became popular in no time. For many bloggers, Pinterest is driving more traffic than Facebook or any other social network. Being an image oriented social networking site, it’s beneficial for many niches and an image pinned from your blog post could easily go viral and drive immense amounts of blog traffic.

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